Can – Flow Motion (Vinyl) Dennis Bovell John Collie and David Wood

John Collie and David Wood are at peak songwriting and on performance fire

the man behind the mixing desk for the previous album

showing off his ear for both persistent earworms and shifting textures

While there's an undertow of bitterness in this album's tales of an America that has turned its back on the working class and the foreign-born

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Can – Flow Motion (Vinyl) Dennis Bovell John Collie and David WoodOn Flow Motion, from 1976, there's a newfound smoothness to the group's interplay, which Holger Czukay attributes to an interest in reggae music, yet the Caribbean influence is quite subtle; only on "Cascade Waltz" and, particularly, "Laugh Till You Cry Live Till You Die" is there a noticeable reggae lilt. The two highlight tracks are "Smoke," a wild, Moroccan styled entry in their ever growing Ethnological Forgery Series, and the limber title track,